The worst Council budget in Southampton's history
16th February 2011
Labour MPs John Denham and Alan Whitehead have spoken out as Southampton Conservative Council sets its budget today.
Today’s budget is the worst financial settlement in Southampton’s history as a unitary authority. In total £12million will be cut from local services in the city, a cut of over 10%. The cuts imposed on Southampton City Council by the Conservative-led Government are four times that imposed on neighbouring shire councils such as Hampshire.
John Denham said:
“The Tory-led Government is cutting too deep, and too fast. And Southampton’s Tories are far too eager to do their dirty work for them”
“The Tory Council is making the wrong choices. We all know that areas like Woolston need supporting in tough times, but closing the public toilets there is going discourage people from shopping in Woolston and do nothing to help the local economy.”
Alan Whitehead said:
“The Tories have got a terrible deal for Southampton- with much deeper cuts than in neighbouring Councils. At the same time they appear to have made almost no attempt to protect the vulnerable in the proposals they’ve put forward.”
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